Loss Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

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God’s perceived silence during a time of desperate need can lead to the lost of faith or doubt within oneself. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the narrator struggles to maintain his faith and his identity he witnesses the dehumanizing acts being inflicted upon him and many other Jews. As he experience more and more atrocities in the camps, Elie begins to rebel against his religious upbringing. Elie survives the Holocaust through a battle of conscience: first believing wholeheartedly in God, then resisting that faith, and finally reclaiming that faith. In his memoir Night, Elie constantly questions God's existence because of the suffering he endures throughout his experiences at the concentration camp. Elie refuses to participate in the praising of